Durfey v. Milligan

About midnight of Christmas eve, 1927, plaintiff, Alta Durfey, and her sister, Margaret Matchuret, employees in a Mary Lee Candy Shop in Detroit, started home in a taxicab owned by ap pellant and driven by Clarence Milligan. They had several Christmas parcels which Milligan laid on the floor of the cab some eight inches in front of the back seat heater. Plaintiff carried in her lap a bird cage, made of an inflammable substance, probably celluloid. When they had ridden some 15 minutes a fire occurred in the cab and both were severely burned. Plaintiff had judgment on trial before the court…